Double Tounging on Alto Sax

[TRtrumpet]

One of our Bari players was trying (unsuccessfully) to diddle tongue once during a parade, cut his tongue and he didn't notice, tried to empty out his spit valve and the spit was completely red. He hasn't tried any kind of multiple tonguing since then.

Dang that sounds painful!

[itsstephenyo]

Haha fortunately, I never could diddle tongue, so I kinda just... didn't. I guess it saved me a bloody tongue.

 

You know what's a lot of fun though... is trying to use really, really odd syllables to tongue. "Guacamole" or "alligator" are two that I remember we used to try.

[robs3889]

double toungin is a ****.

[itsstephenyo]

To start out with, yes, it is. But like all things, you get better at it with practice.

[robs3889]

yeah i know just annoyin lol. i personally use a da ga syllable for double tougin my band director taught it to me and he was freakin good at concert playing so yeah.

[RobinsonSax07]

Well I pretty much have it down on my trumpet, but it doesent seem to work on my alto sax. Any advice?

All 5 Alto's and all 5 of our Tenors can do it in our show. Maybe we are just more music intensive.

[TRtrumpet]

Most likely.

 

 

I can do it now though, i've been workin on it since I started this thread along A** time ago. It took alot longer than it did to learn on trumpet though.

[clarinetrocks]

my friend george from the westfield band says that its impossible

i think it is too

cause i play a woodwind instrument!

[TRtrumpet]

It's not impossible cause I can do it.

[saxplaya09]

I've tried to but it is freakishly hard....nobody I know can do it on the Saxophone.

[acsc1312]

I've tried to but it is freakishly hard....nobody I know can do it on the Saxophone.

it is hard...you just have to use "ta ka" like previously said...its much easier on bari however. As for flutter tounging...I always used to do it in high school messing around..hurts if you cut your tongue, but if you do it lightly it wont cut (that much) lol. Just dont do it all the time

[TRtrumpet]

I've actually gotten pretty good at it now. It's not hard doing it on the same note, but doing a really fast run up is still kinda hard sometimes.

[TRtrumpet]

I did for the fast etude at all region tryouts, and it worked pretty well. I got 2nd chair! The guy who beat me got his just a little cleaner than I did. But oh well.